From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 14 0:16:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.infradead.org (imladris.infradead.org [194.205.184.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764F837B403 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 00:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hch by phoenix.infradead.org with local (Exim 3.35 #5) id 177WXw-00048M-00; Tue, 14 May 2002 08:16:32 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 08:16:32 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Peter Wemm Cc: Terry Lambert , David Greenman-Lawrence , Matthew Dillon , jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems Message-ID: <20020514081632.A15871@infradead.org> References: <3CE01A3A.AAB85F64@mindspring.com> <20020514041918.DF28E380F@overcee.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020514041918.DF28E380F@overcee.wemm.org>; from peter@wemm.org on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:19:18PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:19:18PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Has anyone tapped the manufacturer on the shoulder hard enough to > > get an answer? > > "Why are you not using Linux or another supported OS?" It's not like they support development of the Linux tg3 driver - in fact they refused to gave the authors any usefull information. They provide their own driver but it's buggy as any typical vendor driver and next to useless.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message